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Traditional (Taiwan): 掛

On the HSK 4 vocabulary list, at CEFR level B1.

guà ㄍㄨㄚˋ

    • to hang to suspend (from a hook etc)
    • to hang up (the phone)
    • to be dead

      of a line

    • to be worried to be concerned
    • to make a phone call

      dialect

    • to register (at a hospital) to make an appointment (with a doctor)
    • to kill to die to be finished to fail (an exam)

      slang

    • classifier for sets or clusters of objects

Other words read guà

In the same tone

  • 卦 guà divinatory diagram
  • 褂 guà gown
  • 诖 guà deceive
  • 絓 guà hinder
  • 罫 guà squares of a chess board

All 6 words read guà

gua with other tones

  • 刮 guā scrape
  • 瓜 guā melon
  • 寡 guǎ few
  • 剐 guǎ cut off the flesh as punishment
  • 胍 guā guanidine

All 15 words read gua in any tone

How 挂 is written

    部首 radical
    扌 a form of 手
    笔画 strokes
    9, with 6 after the 部首
    结构 structure
    左右结构
    偏旁 parts
    扌圭
    形旁 meaning
    扌
    声旁 sound
    圭

    Words with 挂

    Starting with 挂

    All 51 words starting with 挂

    Ending with 挂

    All 18 words ending with 挂

    Containing 挂

    • 牵肠挂肚 qiānchángguàdù deeply worried
    • 不足挂齿 bùzúguàchǐ not worth mentioning
    • 牛角挂书 niújiǎoguàshū lit. to hang one's books on cow horns
    • 金钱挂帅 jīnqiánguàshuài caring only about money and wealth
    • 劈挂拳 pīguàquán Piguaquan "Chop-Hanging Fist"

    All 15 words containing 挂

    The words 挂 counts as a measure word

    Example sentences and grammar articles using 挂

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